Dirty Projectors Album Due Next Spring

Includes songs about GPS, "existential nausea"

to clarify: "maybe that was it" = not a diss track!! julian and i hung last winter, he's a cool dude and we actually might make some music together at some point. the song actually has nothing to do with the strokes' song -- that was just a random joke i made to the spin interviewer, but i guess he didn't get it and it became the headline of his article instead! --dave

In a new interview with SPIN, Dirty Projectors frontman Dave Longstreth said the band's next LP, which is close to finished, should be released in spring 2012. He said that it will most likely contain a track in response to the Strokes' 2001 album Is This It, titled "Maybe That Was It", as well as "a 'Thriller'-style song" called "About to Die". ("It's like a monster song, except the monster is the looming specter of meaninglessness and existential nausea [laughs]. It's actually a really funny song.") Other songs include "Terror Vast" and "Swing Low Magellan", the latter inspired by GPS systems. ("I fucking hate GPS.")

Longstreth told SPIN that many of the songs are centered on horror and fear, and that the record will be stripped down and most reminiscent of the band's 2010 Björk collab Mount Wittenberg Orca. Read the full interview, complete with photos of the "haunted" house in the woods where Longstreth lived and worked in January, here.